A Fine Sunday Morning

(for all you former and still present writingup.com bloggers; the site is down again)

Yes, it is a fine Sunday morning. I have been up for a bit, but I was up and down several times last night. Most people couldn’t rest like that, but I love it. I went to bed around 9 and woke up several times to check out things on the Internet. I wrote a little bit. I went out with my dogs around 3am. That’s the life for me. I need to do something to make sure I can live it all the time. That’s on me. I need to get on the ball and make it happen.

Yesterday was a nice day. We had clouds all day and that put a damper on my fun. I am solar-powered. I stole that line from a friend, but it’s so true of me. I got out in the garden. Are any of you tired of hearing about my garden? I won’t ever tire of writing about it. So I will give a brief report on the state of my garden.

I made several trellises (or should that be “trelli”) yesterday. One is for my Morning glories that are needing to climb. I made a nice, natural looking trellis for them to climb on. Well, the trellis is natural in general. It’s made of bamboo and string. I also planted some more pole beans seeds and made a trellis for those also. I love to make little structures like that for my garden. I don’t buy those ready made un-natural things to put in my garden.

I planted more cowpeas. The ones that I had planted earlier are doing just fine. They are looking great. My tomatoes are looking good. The cold weather affected them, but I think they will do fine in the long run. They are looking fine. My squash have plenty of flowers, but no fruit yet. Go figure. I will pick more of the green beans today. The butter beans are looking fine. The lima beans are doing nicely also. My basil is not looking good.The cold got to it. I will have strawberries, or at least a few in a week or so. My hot peppers need to be picked. I have some on them. My cilantro will be clipped today. I need to make some pico!

I also raked and picked up some debris to add to the compost pile. Compost piles are so much fun to me! Everyone should like compost piles. I have four around my yard. They are the key to growing more soil and making your garden more productive. So all of you need to get to making some soil.

That’s enough about the garden. I will move on to some other things.

Street Sense won the Kentucky Derby with Calvin Borel riding. At one point, early in this race, Street Sense was second to last. He finished with a great kick and won fairly easily. Borel is from St. Martinville, LA. Louisiana might not be known for a lot of good things, but they have produced some wonderful jockeys.

All the horses, and they are still babies, made the journey around the track without incident. I don’t want to see another Barbaro type thing. An interesting fact is that many Arab sheiks and such come to Kentucky to buy horses, but don’t race them here. They bring them back to the Middle East and race them. One of the reasons why is they don’t generally race the horses over there at such a young age. They wait until they are older.

The Queen was there. The Queen of England that is. She looked pretty good and seemed to enjoy the race. It’s always good to have the queen here.

I could write a lot more, but it’s time to prepare breakfast. I am a pretty good day. Today we are going to have sweet rolls, sausage, hash browns and scrambled eggs. I will write more later.